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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: PRODIGY RIPS-OFF BUS[
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Phil <project@phoenix.net>

>Good Point here!   Especially in your case, a professional journalist
>first with the Informer, and now with the DEpersona and creative
>endeavors on the net...The Cross Town Bus(tm) and Road toad'l Freedom(tm)
>are Your copyrighted concepts.... and they have used these in context
>as well.
>
>I'd say the case is rather cut and dried especially in view of your
>book in progress, songs, and probably involvement in the movie of the
>century.
>
>Phil
                          
    You think Andy would take the case pro bono?
    
>dennis.l.erlich@support.com wrote:
>
>Faithful Reader,
>
>I hope you will be as outraged as I was when I saw the new
>Prodigy commercial with featuring the Crosstown Bus to Toad'l
>Freedom[tm].  Barry White (!) was driving.  He didn't have a hat
>*or* a badge.  The bus represented a newsgroup "music" and kept
>changing to different occupants each time the subject changed.
>
>I was not contacted or asked for permission to use *my*
>trademarked logo.  Royalties are being paid to neither me nor
>Sirilyan (my partner in the busline).
>
>Prodigy is hereby put on notice:  Either contact me and make
>arrangements to reimburse me for the use of my mark, or prepare
>to face a costly lawsuit being prepared by your humble narrator.
>
>This is no joke.
>
>ps. Barry, I don't know how you could rip me off so shamelessly.
>I usta think you had more class than that.
>
>Well, actually ... I didn't really. - DE
 
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           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
      dennis.l.erlich@support.com  +  inForm@primenet.com
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